Jim.
This is very cute. Almost Jacque-like. But there is a problem in that much, if not all of his data is both alpha and numeric, like "A2" So filtering will not eliminate those lines that contain strings in that form. Craig -----Original Message----- From: Jim Lambert <j...@netrin.com> To: use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Fri, Feb 1, 2013 1:24 pm Subject: Re: to find the first numeric line? Mark wrote: > have you taken a look at the FILTER command? > filter list with "[1-9]*" That is a possible approach, like this: function getNumericLineStart temp put the number of lines of temp into totalLines sort numeric temp filter temp with "[1-9]*" put the number of lines of temp into totalLinesNumericStart return totalLines-totalLinesNumericStart end getNumericLineStart Not sure if this is any speedier than a repeat loop. Jim Lambert _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
